This Week’s Must-See Art Events Are This Season’s Must-See Art Events

There’s been a variety of fun and whimsical art events lately, but every once in a while there’s a week of substantive works which we’ll be thinking back on for years to come. Performa is one of those, and the online biennial “The Wrong” might be another. And after 41 years, this Tuesday’s event at the Clocktower Gallery may be your last opportunity to visit before it’s turned into luxury condos.
On the lighter side, the conversation about art and fingernail painting rages on, and several group shows by emerging artists look promising.

Tue

Housing Works

Will Work For Free

This summer, a federal court ruled that interns are officially employees who are owed backpay. That doesn’t seem to have much of an impact on the art world– probably because so many galleries and nonprofits are barely staying afloat these days. On Tuesday, the author of “Intern Nation” Ross Perlin will discuss how our economy can transition over from temp slaves.

Clocktower Gallery

Dale Henry: The Artist Who Left New York

Dale Henry had a rocky relationship with the art world. Despite his success as a post-minimalist, conceptual painter and installation artist in the mid 1960s to late 1970s, he eventually grew tired of the art world’s commercialism and felt misunderstood by most art world professionals. In 1986, he moved to the remote town of Cartersville, Virginia and stopped making work. One gets the sense, though, that he never fully gave up his art world ambitions; when he died in 2011 he bequeathed his estate to Clocktower Founder and Director Alanna Heiss. Needless to say, he’s showing again.

Wed

Great Hall

EMISSIONS: Images from the Mixing Layer

Natural gas might be worse for the environment than fossil fuels and that’s bad news for New York City; they say we’re living under a big cloud of methane, due to an excess of old leaky pipes. In tandem with Marfa Dialogues, artists Rebecca Smith and Ruth Hardinger address the subject in an exhibition “Emissions: Images from the Mixing Layer.” On Wednesday, they’re holding a panel discussion with:

Rauschenberg Project Space

In 2007, artist Eve Mosher made a High Water Line in Brooklyn and New York City. The line marked the flood line for a hundred-year storm, since climate change has made hundred year storms a way of life. Mosher’s since gotten a lot of requests to replicate the project (the New Yorker ran a piece on it) and will give a talk about it on Wednesday.

Triple Canopy

A Benefit for Triple Canopy

Who better for Triple Canopy to honor at their benefit than Brian O’Doherty (aka, Patrick Ireland)? Among his many interviews, curatorial projects, and artworks which helped impact the intellectual shape of the art world, he presented the idea that an art exhibition could happen in a magazine, when he guest-edited a 1967 issue for Aspen 5+6. Triple Canopy now carries that torch, and they need funds to do so. Go to their benefit.

Fri

SoapBox Gallery

The François Vase

Former AFC editorial fellow Gabriela Vainsencher has spent the past several months working on a performance “The François Vase”, and we get to see the results this week. The collaboration with Daniel Fox imagines the Greek Myth of the Labyrinth, from the perspective of a minotaur. It’s being performed live by the Green Chair Dance Group and the Momenta Quartet on Wednesday at Philadelphia’s Rotunda, and on Friday at Soapbox Gallery.

Foxy Production

Mode

There’s no press release for this show as of yet, and only one image, so we don’t have much to tell you yet. Based on the artists involved, we’re guessing this will be a still life exhibition. Keep an eye on Sara Cwynar. We’ve been seeing her name everywhere. She’s a rising star for sure.

Wallspace

Patricia Treib

Emerging painter Patricia Treib gets her first solo show at Wallspace. Her big calligraphic paintings remind us of a neater mix of Tatiana Berg and Michael Berryhill. They’ve appeared previously before at the uptown gallery Tibor de Nagy, which rarely shows young artists, so the show was a big deal. Given her young age, this one is too.

http://thewrong.org/

New Digital Art Biennale: The Wrong

30 online pavilions leaded by 30 curators/artists/organizations. More than 300 artists to be featured online during 2 months at http://thewrong.org/ starting on November 1st, 2013. A little bird tells us Animal’s Marina Galperina will be the Poet Laureate for Lorna Mills’s Pavilion. That’s gonna be awesome.

Three AFK embassies will also launch IRL events during the biennial. Between TRANSFER, which is located in Brooklyn, Smart Objects in Los Angeles, and Paradise Hills in Melbourne Australia, a good part of the globe will be covered. Since we’re located in Brooklyn, we’ll focus on TRANSFER. They’ll host guided tours by TRANSFER artists who curated pavilions this Saturday, 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Those artists include: A Bill Miller, Rick Silva, Lorna Mills, Rollin Leonard, Giselle Zatonyl and Anthony Antonellis.

All over the city

PERFORMA 13

The world’s best performance biennale is back on. The show’s known for exploding the careers of some of the greatest artists working today (Liz Magic Laser, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Jesper Just among them) so you’re likely to find some excellent work here. Check out their schedule online and check back soon for our round-up.

CANADA

Paintings: Michael Williams

AFC fav Michael Williams will open a show of new paintings this Friday. No press release for this show, but we figure there’ll be a mix of abstract and figurative work on view. Whatever there will probably be a joke or two in the mix.

Sat

Ortega y Gasset

Ornament of Crime

Do you need to live in New York to have a New York art career? The gallery OyG is just one example that suggests not- it’s a collective of artists mostly based out of the New York City area. Their current show draws artists from the UK, California, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. “Ornament of Crime” seeks to disprove a 1913 Adolf Loos essay, which glorifies the modern age for its “freedom from ornament.” There will be lots of patterns.

Regina Rex

Snail Salon

Upstairs, Regina Rex is having a massive show about fingernail painting. (Is AFC a tastemaker?) Just taking a look at the artist list, it looks like a sweeping survey of one contingent of the NYC painting scene. Artists include: